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Re: Source Requirements



On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 02:26:49 AM Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Recently there have been a number of questions about source requirements
> for the Debian archive.  The FTP master view of this are based on both
> item 1 of the social contract (Debian will remain 100% free) and item 2 of
> the DFSG (The program must include source code ...).  We consider source
> packages to be part of the Debian system and as such all files in source
> packages must come with their source as required by the DFSG (and be
> distributable under a free license).

For clarity: Is it OK for languageCompilerX, which happens to be written in 
languageX, to ship a compiled binary of languageCompilerX in the source 
package for languageCompilerX?

Regards, Thomas Koch


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